Nonsensical? Hypothetical?
Many people in the States died in Jan & Feb of the flu (as in seasonal flu) and the point has been made that as the cover-19 virus was already in the US then, many of those could have been because of cover-19, not the flu. Here's the article :
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/u...ndercount.html
"In Virginia, a funeral director prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned her that they each had tested positive for the coronavirus. But only one of the three had the virus noted on the death certificate."